{"id":1358,"date":"2017-07-22T16:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2017-07-22T16:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T21:45:49","slug":"summer-reading-recommendations-july-222017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/summer-reading-recommendations-july-222017\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Recommendations July 22\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My 102 degree F.\u00a0book corner!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what it is out there today. Books for curling up in the air-conditioning, with cat, dog or animal of your preference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1359\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tea_books_w_quote_posters-r367b547933a1481fac5074dcdc6b2206_wv4_8byvr_630-1-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tea_books_w_quote_posters-r367b547933a1481fac5074dcdc6b2206_wv4_8byvr_630-1-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tea_books_w_quote_posters-r367b547933a1481fac5074dcdc6b2206_wv4_8byvr_630-1.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What you might call &#8216;historical fantasy&#8217;, <strong>River of Stars<\/strong>\u00a0by Guy Gavriel Kay. Can&#8217;t recommend it highly enough. I was so happy when all chores were done and I could get back to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strange sci-fi fantasy &#8212; <\/strong>Again highly recommended &#8212; John C. Wright&#8217;s<strong> Awake in the Night Land.<\/strong> A world of people locked into a gigantic construction which allows them to survive a far, far future dead earth and a dead sun. A believable female protagonist goes out into the Nigh Lands to save her brother. Great huge things like mountains creep closer by the day.\u00a0I think it has been out for about ten years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-apocalypse<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>The Dog Stars<\/strong>. Starts out very well and then slides off and loses probability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dystopian<\/strong> &#8212;- <strong>The Weaponsmaker 88.3. <\/strong>New.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry &#8212;<\/strong>Thomas Merton of course, The Master. Individual poems, &#8216;Night-Flowering Cactus&#8217;, and the long poem &#8216;The Early Legends,&#8217; which I could read over and over. <strong>Naomi Nye &#8212;<\/strong>anything from<strong> The Yellow Glove <\/strong>and<strong> Going Going.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 102 degree F.\u00a0book corner! That&#8217;s what it is out there today. Books for curling up in the air-conditioning, with cat, dog or animal of your preference. &nbsp; What you might call &#8216;historical fantasy&#8217;, River of Stars\u00a0by Guy Gavriel Kay. Can&#8217;t recommend it highly enough. I was so happy when all chores were done and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}